ANKARA, Sep 30 US dismantles arms control mechanisms, NATO representatives talk about possibility use of nuclear weapons against Russia, said Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Turkey Alexei Yerkhov. the need for which disappeared with its end. But NATO continues to exist, and, as we see, this alliance is used only as an instrument of US foreign policy,» the ambassador said, speaking at a conference on the settlement in Ukraine and Turkey's role in it at Sakarya University. According to him, «at the initiative of the United States, the mechanisms for arms control and maintaining strategic stability, created by generations of negotiators, are being dismantled.» «At the doctrinal level, the Americans have reduced the threshold for the use of nuclear weapons, and some high-ranking representatives of the leading NATO countries started talking about the possibility and admissibility of using weapons of mass destruction against Russia — nuclear weapons. And we were not the first to raise this issue. These and other worrisome moments are forcing military planners to work out the most dangerous scenarios of a nuclear collision, which could lead to catastrophic consequences,» the diplomat said. , 16:14In Ukraine, they were afraid of «Putin's Trojan horse» in NATO
